12 Bible Verses about Calamity

The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing well-being and creating calamity;
I am the Lord who does all these.

They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the Lord was my stay.

On the ground in the streets
Lie young and old;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, not sparing.

And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.

I will also laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your dread comes,

If a trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it?

“From six troubles He will deliver you,
Even in seven evil will not touch you.

I will also laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your dread comes,
When your dread comes like a storm
And your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.

For thus says the Lord, ‘Just as I brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly;
Instantly he will be broken and there will be no healing.

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?

Therefore the Lord has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the Lord our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.